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LIFORNIA   STATE   LIBRARY 

M.  J.  FERGUSON,  Librarian 

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LIBRARY  LAWS 

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1917 

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California  State  Printing  Offic 

Sacramento,  California 

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CALIFORNIA  STATE  LIBRARY. 

SACRAMENTO 

Trustees. 

L.  W.  Ripley,  President Sacramento 

Mes.  Frances  M.  Habmon Los  Angeles 

A.  H.  Hewitt Yuba  City 

Max  J.  KUHX San  Francisco 

R.   XI.   RiCHABDSON Sacramento 

M.  J>.  Fergu^9'n,_  .'II^-, Librarian 

Mabei.  ,B.  {Si^Lis Assistant 


NOTE. 

This  Supplement  brings  down  to  date 
the  "Library  Laws  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia," issued  in  1913.  It  contains  the 
library  laws  enacted  at  the  1915  and  1917 
sessions  of  the  legislature  and  thus  super- 
sedes the  supplement  issued  in  1915. 
■  Section  410  of  the  Political  Code,  re- 
lating to  the  printing  and  distribution  of 
state  publications,  was  amended  in  1917, 
but  with  no  change  in  the  provisions  relat- 
ing to  libraries.  This  section,  therefore, 
is  omitted. 


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CONTENTS. 

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COUNTY   FREE    LIBRARIES. 

Salary  of  librarian  in  Merced  County   (act 

1911.  sec.   9gg) 5 

Salary   of   librarian   in   Stanislaus   County 

(Pol.   C.   §4254,   15a) : 5 

Salary    of    librarian    in    Plumas    County 

(Pol.   C.   §4280,   15o) 5 

SCHOOL  LIBRARIES. 

Sectarian    books,    etc.,    excluded    (Pol,    C. 

§1607)    6 

Appointment  of  librarian    (Pol.   C.   §1609)        6 
Payment    of    insurance    proceeds    (Pol.    C. 

§1611)    7 

Fund   for   cities   not   divided   into   districts 

(Pol.    C.    §1714) .    S 

District  school  libraries    (Pol.  C.   §1715)—        9 
County  free  library  service  for  high  schools 

(Pol.    C.    §1741) 10 

Special   certificates   in   library   craft    (Pol. 

C.    §1771,  3d) 11 

Certification  of  high  school  librarians  (Pol. 

C.      §1775,   6) 12 

COUNTY   LAW   LIBRARIES. 

Law  library  fund    (Pol.   C.    §4190o) 13 

STATE   LIBRARY. 

Great  register  index  sent  to  state  librarian 

(Pol.    C.    §1115) 14 

Salary   of  state   librarian    (Pol.   C.    §2302)      14 
SUTRO    LIBRARY   ACCEPTED.    15 


COUNTY  FREE  LIBRARIES. 

[Amendment  to  county  free  library  law 
of  1911.1 

Section  9gg.     In  counties  of  the  thirty-  salary 
third   class   the   salary   of  the   county   li-  "f 
brarian  shall  be  eighteen  hundred  dollars  librarian. 
per  annum.     [Amendment.    Statutes  1917, 
p.  1610.] 

[Amendment  to  section  4254  of  the  Po- 
litical Code,  relating  to  compensation  of 
officers  of  counties  of  the  twenty-fifth 
class.] 

15a.  There  is  created  for  counties  of  the 
twenty-fifth  class  a  county  librarian,  who 
shall  be  appointed  by  the  board  of  super- 
visors for  a  term  of  four  years  and  shall 
receive  a  salary  of  one  thousand  eight 
hundred  dollars  per  annum,  to  be  paid  at 
the  time  and  in  the  manner  as  other 
county  officers.  [Amendment.  Statutes 
1917,  p.  1578.] 

[Amendment  to  section  42S0  of  the  Po- 
litical Code,  relating  to  the  compensation 
of  officers  of  counties  of  the  fifty-first 
class.] 

15o.  There  is  created  for  counties  of 
the  fifty-first  class  the  office  of  county  li- 
brarian ;  the  librarian  shall  be  appointed 
by  the  board  of  supervisors  for  a  term  of 
four  .years  and  shall  receive  a  salary  of 
one  thousand  two  hundred  dollars  per 
annum,  to  be  paid  in  equal  monthly  in- 
stallments at  the  same  time  and  in  the 
same  manner  as  other  county  officers  are 
paid.  [Amendment.  Statutes  1917,  p. 
1257.] 


SCHOOL  LIBRARIES. 

POLITICAL  CODE. 

iwers         §1607*.     Boards  of  school  trustees  and 
city  boards  of  education  shall  have  power, 


Third — To  exclude  from  school  and 
school  libraries  all  books,  publications,  or 
papers  of  a  sectarian,  partisan  or  denom- 
iuational  character.  [New  section.  Stat- 
utes 1917,  p.  736.] 

§1609.  Boards  of  school  trustees  and 
cit.v  boards  of  education  shall  have  power, 
and  it  shall  be  their  duty ; 

Third — To  appoint  and,  in  their  discre- 
tion, pay  district  librarians,  and  enforce 
the  rules  prescribed  for  the  government  of 
district  libraries.  [New  section.  Statutes 
1917.  p.  73S.] 

§1611.  Boards  of  trustees  in  school 
districts,  not  including  districts  having 
city  boards  of  education,  may,  and  upon  a 
petition  signed  by  a  majority  of  the  heads 
of  families  resident  in  the  district,  must 
call  meetings  of  the  qualified  electors  of 
the  district  for  determining  or  changing 
the  location  of  the  schoolhouse.  or  for  con- 


•Secs.  1607,  1609  and  1611  are  reenact- 
ments,  under  new  section  numbers  and 
with  only  slight  formal  changes,  of  the 
provisions  of  sec.  1617,  as  amended  in 
1913. 


saltation  in  regard  to  any  litigation  in 
which  the  district  may  be  engaged,  or  be 
likely  to  become  engaged  or  in  regard  to 
any  affairs  in  the  district.  Such  meet- 
ings shall  be  called  by  posting  three  no- 
tices in  public  places,  one  of  which  shall 
be  in  a  conspicuous  place  on  the  school- 
house,  for  not  less  than  ten  days  previous 
to  the  time  for  which  the  meeting  shall  be 
called,  which  notices  shall  specify  the  pur- 
poses for  which  said  meetings  shall  be 
called ;  and  no  other  business  shall  be 
transacted  at  such  meetings.  District 
meetings  shall  be  organized  by  choosing  a 
chairman  from  the  electors  present,  and 
the  district  clerk  shall  be  clerk  of  the 
meeting,  and  shall  enter  the  minutes  there- 
of on  the  records  of  the  district.  A  meet- 
ing so  called  shall  be  competent  to  instruct 
the  board  of  trustees : 
******* 

.3.     In  regard  to  prosecuting,  settling  or  instn 
compromising  any  litigation  in  which  the  '""'* 
district  may  be  engaged,  or  be  likely  to 
become  engaged,  and  may  vote  money  not 
exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  in  any  one 
year,   for  any   of   these  purposes  in   addi- 
tion to  any  amount  which  may  be  raised 
by  the  sale  of  district  school  property,  and 
the   insurance   of   property   destroyed   by 
fire ;   provided,   that  the   proceeds  of  the  Insur 
insurance   of   the   library   and   apparatus  ^^„_ 
shall  be  paid  into  the  library  fund.   *   *  *  ceeds 


brary        §1714.     The    county   superintendent   of 
r         each  county,  or  city  and  county,  shall  an- 
"es      nually  apportion  to  each  city,  or  city  and 
viaed    county,   not   divided   into   school   districts, 
to        as  a   library  fund,  such  sum  as  may  be 
■  requested  by   the   board   of   education   of 
such  city,  or  city  and  county,  said  request 
to  be  in  writing  and  filed  with  the  county 
superintendent   of   schools  at   least  thirty 
days  before  the  first  day  of  the  month  In 
which   the  supervisors  of  the  county,  or 
city  and  county,  are  required  by  law  to 
levy    the   amount    of   taxes    required    for 
county,  or  city  and  county,  purposes  for 
each  year,  but  in  no  case  shall  the  sum  so 
[axl-      apportioned  to  any  district  exceed  eighty 
jrUon-  <^^°ts  f<"^  <5^<^1'  pupil  of  average  daily  at- 
ent.      tendance  in  the  elementary  schools  of  said 
district,  as  reported  to  the  county,  or  city 
and  county  superintendent  of  schools,  dur- 
ing the  preceding  school  year ;  it  is  pro- 
vided, that  in  each  city  and  county  com- 
prising   a    single    district,     the    amount 
lini-      apportioned  shall  be  not  less  than  forty 
ir°city  '^^Dts    for    each    pupil    of    average    daily 
>m-       attendance    in    the    elementary    schools ; 
"^^^    said     amount     so     apportioned     to     be 
istrict.   deducted    from    the    county    school    fund 
apportioned    to    each    city,    or    city    and 
county,  and  credited  to  the  library  fund  of 
ailure    g^ch  city,   or  city  and  county  ;   and  it  is 
iquest.   provided,  further,  that  if  the  board  of  ed- 
ucation  of  any  city,  or  city   and  county, 


shall  fail  to  file  said  request  in  writing  as 
hereinbefore  provided,  the  county,  or  city 
and  county  superintendent  shall  apportion 
to  the  library  fund  of  each  city,  or  city 
and  county,  failing  to  make  such  request 
in  writing,  such  amount,  not  in  conflict 
with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  as  he  may 
deem  advisable.  The  total  amount  of  each 
such  apportionment  shall  constitute  the 
library  fund  of  each  city,  or  city  and 
county,  not  divided  into  school  districts  How 
and  shall  be  expended  only  in  accordance '""  ' 
with  the  provisions  of  section  one  thou- 
sand seven  hundred  twelve  of  this  code. 
[Amendment.     Statutes  1015,  p.  344.] 

§1715.     Libraries    may    be    maintained  Distr 
under  the  control  of  the  district  board  of  |'j||J,°'; 
trustees  or  city  board  of  education,  and  in 
such  case  shall  be  open  to  the  use  of  the 
teachers,  pupils  and  all   residents  of  the 
district.  Wherever  practicable,  the  library 
shall   be   kept   open   during  vacation   and 
non-school  days.     Whenever  the  county  in  May 
which  a  district  is  situated  shall  maintain  ^«™ 
a  county  library,  the  board  of  school  trus-  of 
tees  or  city  board  of  education  may  agree  J™" 
with  the  proper  authorities  of  such  county  libra 
to  make  the  school   library  a  branch   of 
such  county  library.     In  such  event,  such 
board  of  school  trustees  or  city  board  of 
education  shall  turn  over  the  books  and 
other  property  of  the  district  library  to  the 
county  library,  and  shall  annually  transfer 


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to  such  county  library  its  library  fund,  as 
soon  as  it  is  available,  to  be  kept  and  ex- 
pended as  other  funds  of  such  county  li- 
brary.     The    said    county     library     shall 
thereupon    make   such    district    library   a 
branch  library,  managed  and  maintained 
according  to  the  rules  and  regulations  es- 
tablished by  the  authorities  of  the  county 
range-  library.     In  any  city  conducting  a  public 
J'Ji'       library  owned  and  managed  by  such  city, 
;y        the  board  of  school  trustees  or  city  board 
i5j|.y     of  education  of  such  city   may  enter  into 
an  arrangement  with  the  governing  body 
of  the  public  library  of  said  city  similar  to 
the    arrangement    herein    authorized    be- 
tween such  school  trustees  or  board  of  ed- 
ucation and  such  county  library.  [Amend- 
ment.    Statutes  1915,  p.  772.] 
iwers         §1741.     Except  as  in  this  article,  or  in 
d         article   fifteen   of   this   chapter,   otherwise 
provided,  the  powers  and  duties  of  high 
sli        school  boards  shall  be  such  as  are  now  or 
ards.   may  hereafter  be  assigned  by  law  to  boards 
of  education  or  boards  of  school  trustees 
ntract  in    school    districts.      *     *      *     The    high 
school  board  of  any  high  school  district 
lying   wholly    or   partly    within    a    county 
"'?'T     maintaining   a   county    free    library   shall 
have  power   to   enter  into  a  contract  or 
agreement  with  the  board  of  supervisors 
of  said  county,  whereby  said  high  school 
district  may  secure  the  advantages  of  said 
county  free  library  upon  such  terms  and 


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conditions  as  may  be  fixed  in  said  contract 
or  agreement.  [Amendment.  Statutes 
1915,  p.  769.] 

§1771.     County     boards     of     education  Ppww! 
have  power :  county 

^  ^  *  *  *  *  *  boards 

of  edu 

3.  To  grant,  in  accordance  with  sections  cation 
one  thousand  seven  hundred  seventy-two 
and  one  thousand  seven  hundred  seventy- 
five  of  this  code,  the  following  certificates, 
renewable  at  the  option  of  the  board  : 
******* 

(d)  Special  certificates,  authorizing  the  Specia 
holders  to  teach  in  the  schools  of  the  ^jjus 
county  such  branch  or  branches  of  learn- 
ing and  in  such  grades  as  are  named  in 
such  certificates.  No  special  certificate 
shall  be  granted  except  for  the  oral  teach- 
ing of  the  deaf  or  for  the  teaching  of 
atypical  children  or  for  the  teaching  of 
special  classes  in  citizenship,  or  for  teach- 
ing a  subject  included  under  the  manual 
and  fine  arts,  oral  and  dramatic  expres- 
sion, library  craft,  technique  and  use,  mu- 
sic, physical  education,  agriculture,  com- 
mei'cial  branches,  commercial  Spanish,  vo- 
cational guidance  and  technical,  household 
and  industrial  arts,  and  other  vocational 
arts,  not  herein  specified.  [Amendment. 
Statutes   1917,   p.    1315.] 


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§1775.  •  *  *  *  « 

6.  No  librarian  shall  be  employed  for 
more  than  two  hours  a  day  in  any  high 
school,  unless  such  librarian  holds  a  high 
school  certificate  or  a  special  teachers'  cer- 
tificate in  library  craft  technique  and  use, 
of  secondary  grade,  granted  in  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  this  code.  Such  li- 
brarians shall  rank  as  teachers,  and  shall 
be  subject  to  the  burdens  and  entitled  to 
the  benefits  of  the  public  school  teachers' 
retirement  salary  fund  law  on  the  same 
basis  as  other  teachers.  [Amendment. 
Statutes  1917,  p.  1319.] 


COUNTY  LAW  LIBRARIES. 


POLITICAL  CODE. 

§4190a.  The  boards  of  supervisors  of  Law 
the  several  counties  of  this  state  are  here-  library 
by  authorized  at  their  discretion  to  set 
apart  each  month  from  the  fees  collected 
by  the  county  clerks  in  addition  to  the 
fund  now  provided  for  by  law,  a  sum  not 
exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  in  any  one 
month,  to  be  paid  by  the  county  clerk 
into  the  "law  library  fund"  designated  in 
section  four  thousand  one  hundred  ninety 
of  this  code  and  when  so  paid  into  said 
fund  the  same  shall  constitute  a  part 
thereof  and  be  used  for  the  same  purpose 
as  said  fund  is  now  used.  [New  section. 
Statutes  1915,  p.  216.] 

Section  four  thousand  two  hundred  Re- 
twenty-one  o  of  the  Political  Code  is""^ 
hereby  repealed.     [Statutes  1915,  p.  216.] 


STATE  LIBMRY. 

POLrriCAL  CODE. 

■ea?°^  §1115.  *  *  *  The  [county]  clerk 
gisters.  shall  have  bound  together  in  one  or  more 
volumes,  a  general  index  of  said  [regis- 
tration] books  arranged  alphabetically  by 
precincts,  and  shall  keep  at  least  one  copy 
of  said  general  index  in  his  office  for  pub- 
lic reference.  He  shall  also  transmit  one 
copy  of  said  general  index  to  the  state 
librarian  at  Sacramento.  [Amendment 
Statutes  1917,  p.  436.] 


ibra-         §2302.     The  annual  salary  of  the  state 
5^      librarian  is  five  thousand  dollars.  [Amend- 
ment.    Statutes  1917,  p.  1663.] 


SUTRO  LIBRARY  ACCEPTED. 

An  act  validating  the  action  of  the  trus- 
tees of  the  state  lihrary  in  accepting  as 
a  gift  from  the  heirs  of  the  late  Adolph 
Sutra  of  the  city  and  county  of  San 
Francisco  the  library  commonly  de- 
nominated the  "Sutro  Lribrary,"  and  in 
establishing  a  branch  of  the  state  library 
in  the  city  and  county  of  San  Francisco, 
to  be  knotvn  as  the  "Sutro  Library." 

[Statutes  1915,  p.  822.] 

The  people  of  the  State  of  California  do 
enact  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  action  of  the  trustees  sutro 
of  the  state  library  in  accepting  as  a  gift  libw 
from  the  heirs  of  the  late  Adolph  Sutro, 
on  behalf  of  the  State  of  California,  the 
collection  of  rare  books  and  manuscripts 
gathered  by  the  said  Adolph  Sutro  is 
hereby  approved  and  validated. 

Sec.  2.     The  establishment  by  the  trus-  saii 
tees  of  the  state  library  of  a  branch  of  ^'^' 

...  ,  CISCO 

the  state  library  in  the  city  and  county  branch 
of  San  Francisco,  to  be  known  as  the  f?,'^''," 
"Sutro  Library,"  in  which  branch  the 
said  collection  of  rare  books  and  manu- 
scripts shall,  in  accordance  with  the  terms 
of  the  gift,  be  maintained  is  hereby  ap- 
proved and  valid.ated. 


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